PHILLY TREES

First flowers open. A person looks, The blossom s look b ack .. . I approached the Japanese maple, walked right up to its dangling...

It was just too nice a day to spend it cooped up in the office so I rigged up a quick little workplace, outside, in the shade of my fav...

I woke up this morning after another one of those fitful nights. Tossing and turning, I just could not settle into a steady state...

For the last week or so, I’ve been keeping my senses alert for the earliest signs of spring. In a lot of ways, spring is our most f...

Shiver me timbers, it’s cold out there. Cold and gray, wet and cloudy. I was out walking through Center City, weaving my way ...

Over one hundred and fifty years ago, in a February, Henry David Thoreau wrote in his journal: we have such a habit of looking away tha...

People are always asking me: Hey, Jon Spruce, when you gonna settle down? Yo, baby, it’s not your fault.  It’s not from lack of try...